Feeding-trough.



W. A. McCOLLOUGH.

FEEDING THOUGH, APPLICATION FILED mAYs, 1916.

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WILLIAM A. MGCOLLOUGH, 0F WEBSTER CITY, IOWA.

FEEDING-THOUGH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1917..

Application filed May 3, 1916. Serial No. 95,285.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. Mo- CoLLoUeH, a citizen of the United Statesof America, and resident of Webster City, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Feeding-Trough, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction for feeding troughs.

A further object of this invention is to provide an improved trough so constructed and arranged as to facilitate feeding from all four sides thereof.

A further object of this invention is to provide an improved trough to be used in connection with a subdivided superposed hopper and so constructed and arranged as to facilitate feeding from all sides, and designed to permit feeding of different substances on different sides of said trough.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is an isometric view illustrating my improved trough with hopper superposed thereon. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, the hopper removed.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a slightly different form of the trough.

This invention relates to and is an improvement on the devices illustrated, described and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States Number 1,175,650, granted to me March 14, 1916, and Number 1,193,165, granted to me August 1, 1916, to which patents reference hereby is made.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral 10 designates generally a base, to one side of which is hinged my improved trough, and above which are mounted in superposed relations my improved trough and a hopper 11 of any desired form. The particular construction of the base 10 and hopper 11 form no part of my present invention, and any desired form may be used, but I prefer toemploy the forms particularly shown and described in my patents above referred to.

The trough is formed of sheet metal by rolling or pressing, and is so formed as to provide a central longitudinal ridge or partition 12, between which and the sidemargins of the trough are formed side trough shown in Fig. 1. Or

compartments 13, 14. The partition or ridge 12 is foreshortened and does not extend the entire length of the trough, but is approximately half the length of the trough and is equally spaced from the ends thereof. Thus a space is left at each end of the trough, between the end margins thereof and the ends of the ridge or partition 12, and in such places are formed end trough compartments 15, 16, which are in this instance somewhat shorter and of less capacity than the side trough compartments 13, 14.

This trough may be formed of three pieces of sheet metal, properly cut and rolled and riveted together, one piece forming the side trough compartments 13, 14 and the ridge 1 2, and the other two pieces forming the end trough compartments 15, 16, as the entire trough may be made of one piece of sheet metal by pressing and stamping, as illustrated in Fig. 3, and in such event I prefer to so press the material as to form corner partitions 17, extending from the four corners of the trough to the respective ends of the partition or ridge 12, approximately along the lines of the riveted joints shown in Fig. 1. In this way the several side and end trough compartments are positively separated.

Cleats or bails 19, 20, 21 are mounted beneath and fixed to the trough, and their end portions are carried by the base 10. The end cleats 19, 21 preferably are mounted beneath the end trough compartments 15, 16, while the middle cleat 20 passes beneath the side compartments 13, 14, and is bent upwardly beneath and follows in a general way the outline of the ridge or partition 12.

Angle iron frame members 18 are mounted around the margins of and fixed to the trough in a common manner.

In practical use the trough is used in connection with the hopper 11 as indicated, the feed being placed in said hopper and finding its way to the trough. The partition 12, with its slopes in four directions to all sides of the trough, causes the feed to flow toward all sides of the trough where it is readily accessible to the animals to be fed, and the entire periphery of the trough may thus be used for feeding purposes, thus materially increasing the efiective capacity of the device. In case a partitioned hopper is employed, such as is described and shown in my Patent Number 1,193,165 above referred to, a number of different kinds of feed may be fed from the same device without mixing, and in such event each of the trough compartments 13, 14, 15, 16 will receive one of the different articles of feed. When so used the corner partitions 17 are especially desirable.

I claim as my invention- 1. A trough formed with concavo-convex side and end portions, the concavities of which are innermost, the central portion of said trough being concavo-convex in crosssection on a lesser radius than said side and end portions, the concavity of which central portion is outermost, the ridge of the concavo-conveX central portion of the trough being on a right line and of less length than the sides of the trough, the ends of said ridge terminating in spaced relations to the ends of the trough.

2. A trough formed with concavo-convex side and end portions, the concavities of which are innermost, the central portion of said trough being concavo-convex in crosssection, the concavity of which is outermost, the ridge of the concavo-convex central portion of the trough being on a right line and of less length than the sides of the trough,

the ends of said ridge terminating in spaced relations to the ends of the trough, the ridge of the central portion of the trough being at less altitude than the margins of the trough,

said trough also being formed with partitions arranged at right angles to each other, the planes of each pair of said partitions intersecting at one end of the ridge centrally of the trough.

3. A trough formed of two metal side members and two metal end members, the side members being alike and trapezoidal in form, the end members being alike and equilaterally triangular in form, all ofthe members being bent on the same arc, the side members being arranged with their shorter parallel margins adjacent each other, the end members being arranged with their curved margins adjacent to the curved end margins of the side members, whereby an article is produced of a shape rectangular in lan, concavo-convex in cross-section at either side of its median line, its median line forming a recurved ridge with respect to its side portions and of less length than its side margins, and of concavo-convex form between its end margins and the ends of said ridge.

Signed by me at Webster City, Iowa, in the presence of two witnesses.

E. E. MASON, H. O. CUTLER.

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